![]() I've typically used coconut butter and genever, but they can probably replaced by any other oil-hard liquor combination (I've done it with things as exotic as sunflower oil infused with sea-buckhorn berries, a Russian speciality). In the amounts that have to be consumed, it can be called pleasant (even though quite peculiar). The result is somewhat akin to buttered rum hot drinks, albeit with characteristic cannabis fragrance. The idea is to extract cannabis into hot oil and to add a little alcohol and sweetener. The recipe I settled on and found quite satisfactory originates from Adam Gottlieb's The Art & Science of Cooking With Cannabis (and is quoted in the Erowid cannabis vault). I have tried a few different recipes (yoghurt, etc), but the taste of hashish tends to be quite nauseous, even though I consider the perfume of cannabis to be gloriously exquisite when inhaled. My own experience of smoking 1 Brugmansia leaf with a few grains of Moroccan hash has been extremely positive (a beatiful lucid, tranquil, contemplative trance-state), which further encouraged me to explore combinations of mandrake and cannabis. ![]() Tropane-THC combinations are also mentioned in various contexts: witches mixing cannabis with belladonna or mandrake in their potions, Indian sadhus smoking cannabis and datura together, various tropane admixtures in the Arabian hash candies (of the kind used by Baudelaire). A common advice from habitual pot-smokers in this relation seen on the net today seems to be: 'Don't waste your weed, smoke it instead!' So it's the case of pot-heads vs. Charles Baudelaire glorified this practice in his oft-mentioned book Les paradis artificiels. The oral use of cannabis products has probably been the dominant mode of intake during much of the history, until being replaced by smoking relatively recently. I simply could not resist trying, and, of course, I proceeded with extreme caution (gauging my doses carefully, keeping my trials widely spaced, and staying strictly in the sub-delirium dose range). Mandrake ( Mandragora officinarum) root became a very early acquaintance of mine at the time of my childish fascination with botany, and the pictures of this anthropomorphic plant have remained in my imagination ever since. Nevertheless, they appear to have been used widely in witchcraft and shamanic (e.g., Chumash) practices. Tropane-bearing plants have been demonized greatly for the difficulty of correctly dosing them, danger of inducing uncontrollable delirium, heavy body load and possibility of death by overdose. I have decided to summarize some of my experiences with two substances of great historical significance much disfavored by the present day psychedelic community: mandrake root and cannabis resin taken orally.
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